Improvement in ornamental wood-work



H P OSTRUM Ornamental Wood-Work.

No. 208,420. Patented Spt. 24,1878.

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HENRY I). OSTItUM, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORNAMENTAL WOOD-WORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,420, dated September 24, 1878; application led March 5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY P. OsTRUM, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the-Art of Manufacturing Ornamental Vood-Vork; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this speciication.

My invention relates to ornamental woodwork; and consists in making from wood rectangular pieces of equal size in cross-section and various lengths; in making one or more transverse slots in the pieces, cut to the center of the pieces, the width of the slots equa-ling the width of the pieces on the sides in which they are cut, the slots in the longer pieces being equidistant from each other, each of the shortest pieces having a slot in the middle; in making the shortestpieces equal in length to the distance from the center of one slot to the center of another slot in the lon gerv pieces 5 in making the ends of all the pieces equidistant from a slot, and in putting the pieces together to make ornamental wood-work.

In the drawing, the central ligure is a view of a cross, a sample of the ornamental work. The other iigures are views of the slotted rectangular pieces, of equal size and various lengths.

The rectangular pieces are cut or sawed from l boards by any of the well-known Ways for working wood, and are made of equal size and various lengths. They need not be made of any particular size. It is only required that they are the same size. They are made with one or more transverse slots, cut to the centers of the pieces, the width ofthe slots conforming to the width of the pieces on the sides in which they are cut. In the longer pieces the slots are made at equal distances from each other, and the shortest pieces equal in length the distance from the center of one slot to the center of another slot in the longer pieces, and have one slot in the middle. The ends of all the pieces are made equldistant from a slot.

The pieces need not be square; it is only rcquired that they be rectangular. And the slots in the longer pieces need be no particular distance apart; itis only required thattheybe equal distances from each other, and that the length of the shortest pieces and the depth and width of the slots be made according to the above directions, with the ends of all the pieces equidistant from a slot, the size of all the pieces being the same.

These rectangular pieces, of equal size and various lengths, thus framed, can be put together and glued or otherwise fastened, using such pieces as are required, forming a cross, as shown in the drawing, and also forming a great variety of useful and ornamental articles, the variety varying with the ingenuity ot the manipulator and number of pieces used.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ornainental wood-work made from the rectangular pieoes herein described, of equal size in cross-section and various lengths, provided with transverse slots, out to the center of the pieces and equidistant from each other, in the longer pieces the width of the slots equa-ling the width of the pieces on the sides in which they are cut, each of the shortest pieces equaling in length the distance from the center of one'slot to the center of another slot in the longer pieces, and having a slot in the middle, the ends of all the pieces being equidistant from a slot, as shown and set forth.

HENRY P. OSTRUM.

Witnesses GEORGEV TERRY, WILLIAM E. BALDWIN. 

